Humans Traveling at Light Speed: A Possibility?

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if we ever had the technology to do this would it be possible for humans to travel at the speed of light?
 

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No. Nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light, although nothing but energy constraints prevent us from traveling arbitrarily close to it.
 
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if we ever had the technology to do this would it be possible for humans to travel at the speed of light?

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